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- Title
Blaster and the August 14th Blackout.
- Authors
Schneier, Bruce
- Abstract
This article reports that according to the "Interim Report: Causes of the August 14th Blackout in the United States and Canada," published in November and based on detailed research by a panel of the U.S. Government and industry officials, the blackout was caused by a series of failures. The chain of events began at FirstEnergy Corp., a power company in Ohio. And because critical alarm systems failed, workers at FirstEnergy did not stop the cascade because they did not know what was happening. At 14:14 EDT, the alarm and logging software at FirstEnergy's control room failed. At 14:41, the primary server computer that hosted the alarm function failed. This massive computer failure was critical to the cascading power failure.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ELECTRIC Power Failure, North America, August, 2003; FIRSTENERGY Corp.; SYSTEM failures; ELECTRIC utilities; COMPUTER system failures
- Publication
Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2003, Vol 16, Issue 3, p21
- ISSN
1946-4789
- Publication type
Article